Lammot spends her time saying something we all should already know, or at least should: first drafts, or for that matter any draft, shouldn’t. So long as there is improvement between each revision, the quality of everything but the final draft is irrelevant.
In my experience this rarely turns out to be true. Throughout middle and high school, when a paper was assigned that included turning in a rough draft, a paper would be written and it would either not be proof-read or be half finished.
Highschool was not a time for drafting. A paper would be assigned, and along with the due date, a date for the draft would be set a week earlier. The paper would then be written at midnight before the draft is due, turned in, and then forgotten for a week. Maybe someone would go back and rework s sentence or two or some fix spelling and grammatical mistakes, but by and large there would be no significant changes to the paper, but that would be the furthest anyone would take the editing process.
The timetable Lammot uses is also inapplicable to most student writings, as very rarely are we given months to work on a paper.
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